Saturday, March 31, 2012

Hosono and his officials are right now in Kyoto, trying to persuade Kyoto residents that they have to accept disaster debris, and the protesters want to have none of that. Hosono has to shout to be heard over the ruckus.

He's trying to appeal to the people in Kyoto by showing some craft piece made by a Miyagi elementary school child. "Do you think this is contaminated? Do you?"

At about 7 minutes into the video: No.3 guy at Ministry of the Environment (politician) starts to speak, appealing to the small crowd at Kyoto Station how important it is to help out the people in the disaster affected area whose towns are still buried under the mountain of debris. "See this photo?" he says.

Shouting starts about 8 minutes. "We're against it!" (Hantai!)

At 8:55, you see two guys in bright green vests holding up signs that says "Kizuna". How much more blatant can you get, to show you are the Ministry's shills?

At 11:30, Goshi Hosono, Minister of the Environment, takes the stage. He is immediately being shouted down by angry crowd. He has to change the microphone to be heard above the shouting.

At 16:00, Hosono desperately grabs a craft piece made by an elementary school kid in the disaster affected area, and tries to tell the angry audience "Do you think this is contaminated? Do you?" People keep shouting at him, "Kaere, Kaere (Go back, go back)".

At 23:00, Governor of Kyoto takes the stage. People keep shouting him down.

At 27:40, Fukuyama, DPJ politician from Kyoto and advisor to then-Prime Minister Kan when the disaster struck, takes the stage. People keep shouting "Go back, go back". Fukuyama pleads with them that he is from Kyoto, and he comes back here. People keep shouting "Go back, go back".

People are telling him to go back to where he belongs, which is the center of the central government who wants Kyoto to accept and burn debris.

At 32:00 Fukuyama resorts to citing "democracy" as the reason why these protesters should quietly listens to him. People keep shouting "Go back, Go back".

That was rich. "Democracy". Was it a democracy to simply decide to spread the disaster debris all over Japan without even asking people?

Good for Kyoto people. I've never seen anything like this where people refuse to quietly listen to a politician, and instead they shout them down.

I am surprised that they didn't call in the police, but as Iwakami's IWJ was there netcasting live, that would have really made the already ugly scene for the Ministry of the Environment even uglier.

There is ZERO coverage of this incident in the national newspapers, not even in their local Kyoto versions. All there are in the local versions of the national papers is how eager and willing and ready Kyoto is to accept and burn the disaster debris.

Do they even consider what the piece is made of, where the materials to craft it came from, or whether those materials were affected by radioactive particles at some point? I doubt it. Their minds are too simple to comprehend past the first apparent step of the item's creation.

Aside from that, I fail to see the relevancy. Did that child build the buildings hit by the earthquake and radiation? Are they going to burn hundreds of craft pieces and inhale the smoke?

They also said "Kodomo wo mamore!" which means "protect the children". I WISH this would happen all over the country...There is going to be nowhere left to go for vacation, no safe region from which to buy food, no peace of mind...

Proves why they should still be the capital. Real class, real culture, real intellect, real cuisine and let's face it.. The ONLY reason most people tour Japan.They have most to lose.Kudos Kyoto! You shame us in Osaka.

The people of Kyoto seem to understand what is at stake. However, I would not use a blanket statement saying they are more intellectual. If the same situation happened there I think the response would be completely the opposite. There is no reason to send debris all over Japan. This is a nation and the best thing Kyoto can do is reject debris and force the government to move those in harms way out of hell.

one year on: the question remains: if to be honest means for the government to say:"tokyo is not safe." and "Alot of agricultural land has been contaminated." and etc.would this lead to a better outcome?To be honest, this kind of land-locked contamination has never happened. how would YOU deal with it?i don't understand enough "japanese" to even make an educated guess, after all what is japanese for me, is just what has been exported ... made in japan.i feel i have to comment because, though i'm not a religious person and sending worthless prayers to japan, maybe i do can sympathize a bit ( a tinny bit) with the government. every country has bad people and good people. not all government can summary be bad. just getting a revolution would mean to replace ALL government people-brains with .. n00bs.like i said, i don't know enough "japanese-ness" and even less on how to deal with 900 tons of reactive uranium spewing around a island and waste is waste and a problem.if it boils down to being "good", i think everybody with a certain amount of responsibility will agree, that the more you get the harder it gets.to end: pro-nuclear monkey proponents, i think, even at this point, will never be convinced -another kind of terrorist- and maybe tho hard as it might be, it's time to think about what ideas might actually help japan in this situation, at this time ...

For Iwakami and any other independent journalists in Japan, thank you. The stories you have to report are very important for your countrymen and the rest of the world to see. The global MSM is reporting very little for obvious reasons. Is it possible in this challenging time for you to try and make some of your important stories more accessible for the worldwide audience by captioning or translating the content? The widest possible audience of the actual stories without industry filtering is a goal to strive for.

Kyoto will always be in my heart. I HAD to leave it because of the criminal behavior of that government, it was not my choice, it was just a MUST to protect my kid. I hope one day I can go back there. I hope Kyoto people will not disappoint me.

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